I am one of countless children of immigrants whose American dream was predicated upon the policies being ripped to shreds by this…foolheaded doesn’t begin to describe this.

Thread of the decade. Summary of evidence-based solutions to really make super-babies. 👏👏👏

Calling all US-based language researchers! Introducing the MacArthur-Bates CDI-IIIR for Amer Eng! This fully revised parent report form assesses vocab, grammar, print awareness and more in children 30-48 mos. Interested in contributing norming data? Click forms.gle/QP2rZSmbaNT1... for more info!

Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.

Congratulations to Jennifer Eberhardt for making TIME's 2026 "Closers" list! Recognizing Black leaders who are addressing racial disparities in different fields and in different ways. #Bias #AI #Psychology

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Thrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues! A thread 🧵

Micheletti et al. (2025): new research using home observations & wearable sensors shows that when moms hold their crying babies, both moms & babies show vagal withdrawal. Physical touch, not vocalizing, may be key for regulation in the wild #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

On the ground, covering the ICE Out for Good protest in Alexandria, VA. We will not be silenced. We will not be intimidated. We will not normalize this abuse of power.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

Oh, and while you're at it, also check out this spiffy refresh to the Peekbank website, courtesy of the unstoppable @adriansteffan.bsky.social : peekbank.stanford.edu

Very excited that this is now published at eLife - the first outcomes from a huge effort from the Peekbank team to see what we can learn about children's lexical development from collecting and standardizing lots and lots of looking-while-listening data. Check it out, and stay tuned!

Just out in Infancy! "Time to talk", by our great team, Janet Bang, Mónica Munévar, Arlyn Mora, and Anne Fernald used day-long recordings of English- and Spanish-speaking families in the US to explore what caregivers are doing when talking the most with their children.

Today’s No Kings protest could be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. People have power.

We have almost 500 people registered in our small community outside of Los Angeles. Far more people than we have ever had before. We are excited and energized, yellow safety vests ready.

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

Michigan Avenue right now.

This is higher education in Texas right now. People applying for faculty jobs here should be aware of this.

They’re gonna blame the moms. They always blame the moms. They’re blaming moms for using the only safe pain reliever that in no way causes autism but WILL cause undue guilt and anguish. Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.

Many studies including 2024 Swedish study (cohort of 2.4 million) have shown no relationship between Acetaminophen and autism or ADHD. In spite of this, Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Service Journalism - News you can use. The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!

🧪 Win for NIH researchers: An appeals court just effectively upheld an earlier order to reinstate terminated NIH grants. Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... SCOTUS may be next (see next post) 1/3

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

Not just in Los Angeles.

[after thinking about it for three hours] ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

America hates Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten: “American people don’t see this as a big, beautiful bill. They see it as a big, bad bill. They hate it, hate it, hate it! They think it’s awful, awful, awful!”

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

when you want to join the fun but can't quite get down with the nomenclature (ht @davelevitan.bsky.social)

if you're not going to graduation tomorrow.. there are, umm, other community events going on... sccdp.org/index.php/20...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump shrugs off fears of shortages due to his China tariffs, saying, “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls.” “Oh, the Golden Toilet Guy is now preaching minimalism?” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead. This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...

Canadian election = e.g. of healthy democracy ✳️ 5-week campaign, w/ spending limits (keeps big money impact low) ✳️ automatic registration of voters, plenty of polling stations; easy voting, short/no queues ✳️ losers conceded their loss instantly ✳️ no violence In Canadian parlance: a "beauty"

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research." The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Want an explanation for the destruction of health and medicine in our country that's completely understandable? Send this far and wide! Please share!! Accurate, simple, and comprehensive, John Oliver describes what's happening to NIH (+others) and medicine better than I can youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs

Trump seems appreciably older to me in recent appearances than even a few months ago.

I am almost 82 and very 2nd Wednesday of the month I hold my breath so does my partner. No one should have to live like that; I paid into SS for almost 50 years and started paying into Medicare when it started. SS is an earned benefit and invested in by employee/er contributions.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

there's a lot lately in the news that makes me want to scream-cry, but this.. this.. please, please not Head Start 💔

Make America Grate: “The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision.” apnews.com/article/irs-...